Natalia Avdeeva ROI
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Statement
Natalia Avdeeva is known for huge powerful landscapes with vast skies and affecting vistas. Each is a 'piece unique', and has been created 'en plein air' or in the studio using innovative techniques that combine painting with different mediums.
Methodology
Painting these vast skies seems to come instinctively to the artist who was born, and grew up, in the Altai region in southern Siberia where the borders of Russia, China, Kazakhstan and Mongolia meet. Altai is a majestic land of immense proportions and extreme climates – exceptionally hot summers and winters where the temperature regularly drops below -40. The boundless skies, the mountains and glacial lakes of the region’s natural environment provided the inspirational backdrop for the artist’s childhood where her first job was picking herbs in the mountain passes for the local shaman. This natural influence is clearly evident in her work today and she describes her sense of being “in dialogue with the natural world, with the air, the sky.”
Bio
Natalia is a London-based Siberian British artist. She is a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters (ROI) and the recipient of many awards and prizes including the Winsor and Newton Young Artist Award (2011), the Royal Society of Marine Artists Young Artist Award (2016) and The Artist Magazine Award (2017). She was shortlisted in the BBC series 'Show Me the Monet’ in 2013.